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Originally Posted by ace1076
"Campies", can talk about all of the four star recruits Texas has on their receiving corps. None of them will matter though, because Vince young is a tailback playing Q.B. This is the same quarterback who through 2 ints against Rice...Rice! I can't believe they still play football there. Without Benson and no true or workhorse tailback Texas falls. Proving once again the Little 12 is the most overrated conference in the nation.
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I'll be the first to admit as a Longhorn fan that some of the criticism to VY's throwing ability is valid. He doesn't throw for a lot of TD's, he has a high amount of INT's, and he passes with a side-arm motion thats not pretty to look at, and often inaccurate on easy throws. However, this is the same Vince Young who was the #1 rated Quarterback/Dual-Threat/Overall Player in the nation coming out of HS in 2001, the #1 rated quaterback at the Elite 11 QB camp for arm strength and MVP honors, and the MVP of the US Army AA game. Now, all of those accolades obviously do not make a top notch passer by themselves, but to act like VY is simply a track star with running back flair masquarading as a D-1 QB is insane.
This guy has a gun of an arm, made to throw a football, and more people knowledgable of the game than you or I have been able to see that. Some where along the adjustment to college, and exposure to the offensive developmental cancer that is our OC Greg Davis, Vince has either remained fundamentally much the same, or perhaps slightly degressed, mechanically, and that has effected his performance as a passer. Does he have accuracy problems? Yes. Has his reliance on running the past 2 years predominantly in terms of the offense overshadowed his prowess of a passing QB ? No doubt. Does any of this mean that he is unable to beat a team through the air by adapting to the team offensive changes vis a vis personel changes, w/o sacrificing his devestating ability to control the game with his feet? Absolutely not, and the primary reason is, Vince Young is a winner as much or more than he is a superb physical specimen and athlete, and winners do what is necessary to keep winning.
For those reasons, I believe its very reasonable to expect Vince Young to be an effective if not dominating passer to complement his most-definately dominating running ability to the effect of a complete player who has the tools to adjust as needed in order to win. Whether he is able to put all of that together and come out with a win in our game at the 'Shoe remains to be seen.